Peace

Peace

Peace starts within us- we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer.

Often we look at the outside world and find it in a state of seeming chaos or disorder. We feel compelled to transform the situation from one of turmoil into one of peace, yet we are often disappointed in our best attempts to do so. One reason for this is that we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer. Peace starts in our own minds and hearts, not outside of ourselves, and until its roots are firmly entrenched in our own selves, we cannot manifest it externally. Once we have found it within, we can share it with our family, our community, and the whole wide world. Some of us may already be doing just that, but for most of us, the first step is looking within and honestly evaluating the state of our own relationship to peacefulness.

Interestingly, people who manifest peace internally are not different from us; they have chattering thoughts and troubled emotions like we all do. The difference is that they do not lend their energy to them, so those thoughts and feelings can simply rise and fall like the waves of the ocean without disturbing the deeper waters of peacefulness within. We all have this ability to choose how we distribute our energy, and practice enables us to grow increasingly more serene as we choose the vibration of peace over the vibration of conflict. We begin to see our thoughts and feelings as tiny objects on the surface of our being that pose no threat to the deep interior stillness that is the source of peacefulness.

When we find that we are able to locate ourselves more and more in the deeper waters and less on the tumultuous surface of our being, we have discovered a lasting relationship with peace that will enable us to inspire peace beyond ourselves. Until then, we help the world most by practicing the art of choosing peace within.

DailyOM Course Spotlight

by Rhonda Findling

In this course, internationally acclaimed author and psychotherapist Rhonda Findling will empower you by giving you the strength to let go of emotionally unhealthy relationships. You will learn how to stop obsessing or ruminating about partners that are not reciprocating your level of interest or are emotionally unavailable. Rhonda will give you tools to help you stop acting desperate or needy. You will learn why you compulsively contact partners though you know these behaviors are not in your best interest. This course will help you to stop acting desperate with people that you like, stop checking up on your ex, sit back and wait rather than being the pursuer, and increase your self-confidence- by not chasing others around. Learn to be more independent when it comes to relationships, learn to give another the space to long for you, learn how to sit on your impulses. Each lesson provides transformational writing exercises that will help you process your feelings. Rhonda offers audio advice as well as meditations to help you fully step out of emotionally unhealthy relationships.